Plato Quotes

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.